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Tuesday 27th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Con)]

14. What steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS has sufficient long-term funding.

[The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Matt Hancock)]

We are increasing the NHS budget by £20.5 billion in real terms over the next five years. It is a major investment to make sure that the NHS is there for us all.

[Jack Brereton]

Royal Stoke University Hospital continues to be in financial special measures, and local clinical commissioning groups are now projecting significant overspends in their budgets. How will the Secretary of State ensure that stressed health economies such as those in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire get a significant share of the additional £20.5 billion?

[Matt Hancock]

Clearly, part of the £20.5 billion of extra funding that taxpayers are putting into the NHS over the next five years is for ensuring that services can be put on a sustainable footing, and that includes some of the highly stressed services such as those in Stoke.